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Re: Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers |
Date: |
Thu, 03 Apr 2014 12:59:20 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> My goal is not to convince you to do something you don't want to.
>
> The main issue here, at least for me, is not whether Mr. X wants to
> describe an existing implementation -- we obviously cannot do anything
> if he doesn't, no matter what are his reasons. The main issue here
> is, once Mr. X _did_ describe such an implementation, is it OK for
> someone else, who is not familiar with the actual code, to
> re-implement it from scratch, and then submit it to Emacs as their
> own, under assigned copyright. My conclusion from everything I know
> and read is that YES, it is OK.
>
> IOW, I'd like to avoid the situation where others here might become
> intimidated by what you wrote in a broader sense, and will as result
> refrain from participating in discussions that reveal details of other
> implementations, or from assigning their code written based on those
> discussions. That would cause some real damage to Emacs.
Nobody claimed that the broken copyright system does not lead to a whole
lot of real damage to a whole lot of software development.
<URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence,_structure_and_organization>
may be somewhat instructional about some current court practice in the
U.S.A. Please note that Oracle/Google ruling is unfortunately somewhat
atypical and on appeal (appeal hearing was in December)
<URL:http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/googles-copyright-win-against-oracle-is-in-danger-on-appeal/>
and that the FSF would not have been in a position to pay the kind of
legal expenses incurred here.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers, David Kastrup, 2014/04/01
- Re: Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/04/01
- Re: Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/04/02
- Re: Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/04/02
- Re: Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/04/03
- Re: Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers, David Kastrup, 2014/04/03
- Re: Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/04/03
- Re: Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers, David Kastrup, 2014/04/03
- Re: Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/04/03
- Re: Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/04/04
- Re: Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/04/04
- Re: Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers, Richard Stallman, 2014/04/04
- Re: Unibyte characters, strings, and buffers, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/04/03